LA may force restaurants to post calories on menus

This is Great!!!

good. i think all restaurants should do that. people have a right to know what their eating before they eat it and not have to go out of their way to go online and look it up

No one will have the time or even want to sit there and read the calories, leave it off so we dont waste more paper making menue's

this is awesome, everyone should have an idea of what kind of crap they are putting in their body. It may waste some paper, but do you consider books a waste of paper too. Its all about education my friends.

This is a great idea!!! Everything that makes people think and use their brains to figure out something that can be good for them is good. I am just not sure about this word that "may" as it could be may yes, may not.

You mean they don't post the calorie count of their products over there?? Over here in Amsterdam (and all of Holland) you can find the nutritional values of everything mcdonald's sells on the back of the place paper things..(that paper on the plastic trays. So they won't be wasting any extra paper than they do at the moment anyway)

They should have brought this law on way, way sooner.

if it looks like 2000 calories it probably is.

People need to have more self control, and less government to tell them what to do.

Yeah...that'll stop 'em.

Awesome!!!

What is up with the food police? Do we really need this? If you are fat, here's an idea, STOP EATING! I'm amazed that California actually feels the need enact laws to make people stop eating. With all the countries in the world starving and our economy as bad as it is, stop eating already! Amazing.

Everyone should be aware of the calories they are ingesting as well as other nutritional information. Laws shouldn't have to be adopted for us to take personal responsibility.

good they should even post all the ingredients on everything! maybe if people knew more about wha they're eatin they'll think twice!

This would be nice. Now, who is going to monitor whether or not they're telling the truth? Here's a question ... is the problem not knowing how many calories are in something or that we're (Americans) gluttonous pigs and are eating/consuming ourselves to death?

at some american fast food joints in spain ( burger king in madrid for one , as i remember ) they have the calories for each item posted on the ordering board behind the counter , under each item . that's all the evidence i need that we're being manipulated .

That's a good start. They should also make Nutrition Facts in English. How in the world am i supposed to know what monosodium glutamate is! It's like they don't want us to know what we're consuming!

most fast food restaurants down here have huge signboards with this information. and you can request this information from a manager.

you can make these signs talk or blink but the truth of the matter is, people know fast food is bad for them and they don't really give a shit.

what a waste of tax money.

This is so much better (for both consumer and business owner) than the more authoritarian policies being rolled out elsewhere to completely ban unhealthy foods (such as cooking oils with trans fats). Give people the necessary, relevant information that will allow them to make an informed decision.

Open your mouth, close your eyes, and pray your arteries last past thirty-five.

There should also be an eating limit based on calorie count like there are at some restaurants for drinking.
I mean, if you past the limit, you probably already got all you need. Then it's just being excessive.

This is a good first step for the fast food industry to clean up a little.While its a great idea to post calorie intake they should give hints on how the food is processed and the preservatives put in. Although I believe it will hurt sales it will kick the industry into maybe making a change to how the food is made.

And the worlds worries evaporate! Now I can get back to organizing my shoes by shade and hue!

Ok this may sound reasonable for fast food chains but what about higher class restaurants? If it is applied in Italian, French etc restaurants it would take away from the experience. Although it is true that these foods can be rich or full of carbohydrates, the people where these foods originate don't have any issues due to diet, because they lead an overall healthy lifestyle which includes correct portions, balanced diet, lots of walking and a fair amount of exercise. There has been a trend toward surplus weight, but this is due uniquely to adopting the american way of life in terms of diet and exercise not because calories are or aren't posted on menus. It sounds like another shortcut that will get fat people no where.

I think this is a great idea, however, with some people things just aren't going to change. They've gotten too used to their lifestyle for a silly number to mean anything....

OK...right now, the story right above this one is about a super-obese man...hmmmmmm